profanity-status(1)

profanity-status1

Usage

/status set <state> ["<message>"]

/status get <contact>|<nick>

Overview

/status get: Find out a contact, or room members presence information. /status set: set own status.

Arguments

<state>

Own status. Possible values: chat, online, away, dnd, xa

<message>

Optional message to use with the status. Needs quotation marks if it's more than one word.

<contact>

The contact who's presence you which to see.

<nick>

If in a chat room, the occupant who's presence you wish to see.

Examples

/status get [email protected]

/status get jon

/status set online

Releases

4 releases since Debian 11 (Bullseye); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 11
  2. 12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

From profanity 1:0.19.0-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Also shipped by profanity-gtk. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.